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houses and public school buildings are hereby declared to be necessary supplies, and may be paid for out of the public funds of the respective counties or school districts.

§ 5. Any person or persons who shall wilfully injure, deface or destroy any flag, flag staff or pole, or adjustments attached thereto, erected and arranged for the purpose of carrying out the requirements of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one (1) dollar nor more than fifteen (15) dollars.

§ 6. That an act entitled, "An act to provide for placing the United States national flags on school houses, court houses and other buildings in the State," became a law June 26, 1895, in force July 1, 1895; and an act entitled, "An act to require the United States flag to be placed upon all public buildings in Illinois, or upon a flag pole erected within the school grounds surrounding such school buildings," became a law June 26, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, be and the same are hereby repealed.

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AN ACT authorizing school districts managed by boards of educa tion or directors to establish and maintain classes for the deaf in the public schools, and authorizing payment therefor from State common school funds. Approved June 11, 1897, in force July 1,

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That upon application by a board of education or directors of any school district of the State to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, he shall grant permission to such board of education or directors, and such board of education or directors shall thereupon be empowered to maintain as part of a public school, within its limits, one or more classes, having an average attendance of not less than three pupils, for instruction of deaf persons over the age of three and under twenty-one years, residents of the State of Illinois.

§ 2. Such board of education or directors which shall maintain one or more classes for the instruction of the deaf shall report to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction annually, and as often as said Superintendent shall direct, such facts concerning such class or classes as he may require.

§ 3. The county superintendent of schools in each county is hereby authorized and directed to apportion and pay out of the State common school fund received by such county, to the treasurer or other financial officer cf such board of education or directors maintaining such class or classes for the instruction of the deaf, the

sum of one hundred and fifty dollars for each deaf pupil, resident of such county, instructed in any such class for at least nine months during the school year, and a share of such sum proportionate to the term of instruction of any such pupil as shall be so instructed less than nine months during such year. If no such class shall be maintained in a public school in any county, but persons residing in such county shall attend such class in an adjoining county with the permission of the county superintendent of the county not maintaining such class, then said superintendent shall pay to the financial officer of the board of education or directors of the district maintaining such class the amount above specified for each pupil attending such class in such other county.

§ 4. The sums provided in the next preceding section shall be paid by such county superintendent of schools as soon as may be after the receipt by him of the State common school fund in each year, upon satisfactory proof being made to him by the president and the secretary or clerk of such board of education or directors maintaining such class, of the number of pupils instructed in such class or classes, and their residences, and the period of time each such pupil shall have been so instructed in such class or classes for the preceding school year.

§ 5. All teachers in such classes shall be appointed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction upon application of the board of education or directors of the school district maintaining such class or classes; the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to have the power to remove such teachers for cause. No person shall be appointed to teach any such class who shall not have first obtained a teacher's certificate, as provided by law, and who shall not have received specific instruction in the teaching of the deaf for a term of not less than one year.

A MANUAL TRAINING DEPARTMENT FOR TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOLS. 21. Election for establishment of manual 23. Establishment of the training departtraining department. ment.

22. Ballots for such election.

AN ACT to provide for the establishment and maintenance of manual training departments for high schools. Approved June 3, 1897, in force July 1, 1897.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That upon the petition of not less than fifty voters of any high school district, filed with the township treasurer at least fifteen days preceding the regular election of members of the board of education for said high school district, it shall be the duty of said treasurer to notify the voters of said district that an election "For" or "Against" the establishment of a manual training department for said high school will be held at the next annual election of the board of education by posting notices of such election in at least ten of the most public places throughout the township for at least ten days before the day of such regular election, which notice may be in the following form:

HIGH SCHOOL ELECTION.

Notice is hereby given that on Saturday, the.. A. D. ......... an election will be held at..

.day of April, ....for the purpose of

voting "For" or "Against" the proposition to establish a manual training department for the high school in township No...... range No..... The polls for said election will be opened at......o'clock and close at...... .o'clock of said day.

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Township Treasurer.

§ 2. The ballots for such election shall be received and canvassed as in other elections, and may have on them the names of the board of education voted for at said election.

§ 3. If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be infavor of establishing a manual training department for the high school in said district, it shall be the duty of the board of education to establish and maintain therein such department as a part of the high school.

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AN ACT to enable boards of education or boards of school trustees to establish and maintain parental or truant schools.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in cities having a population of 100,000 inhabitants or more, there shall be established, maintained and conducted, within two years from the date of taking effect of this act, one or more parental or truant schools for the purpose of affording a place of confinement, discipline, instruction and maintenance of children of compulsory school age who may be committed thereto in the manner hereinafter provided.

§ 2. For the purpose of establishing such school or schools, sites may be purchased and buildings constructed or premises rented in the same manner as is provided for in the case of public schools in such cities; but no such school shall be located at or near any penal institution. And it shall be the duty of the board of education to furnish such schools with such furniture, fixtures, apparatus and provisions as may be necessary for the maintenance and operation thereof.

§ 3. The board of education may also employ a superintendent and all other necessary officers, agents and teachers; and shall prescribe the methods of discipline and the course of instruction; and shall exercise the same powers and perform the same duties as is prescribed by law for the management of other schools.

§ 4. No religious instruction shall be given in said school except such as is allowed by law to be given in public schools; but the board of education shall make suitable regulation so that the inmates may receive religious training in accordance with the belief of the parents of such children, either by allowing religious services to be held in the institution or by arranging for attendance at public service elsewhere.

§ 5. It shall be the duty of any truant officer or agent of such board of education to petition, and any reputable citizen of the city may petition, the county or circuit court of the county, to inquire into the case of any child of compulsory school age who is not attending school, and who has been guilty of habitual truancy, or of persistent violation of the rules of the public school, and the petition shall also state the names, if known, of the father and mother of such child, or the survivor of them; and if neither father nor mother of such child is living, or can not be found in the county, or if their names can not be ascertained, then the name of the guardian if there be one known; and if there be a parent living whose name can be ascertained, or a guardian, the petition shall show whether or not the father or mother or guardian consents to the commitment of such child to such parental or truant school. Such petition shall be verified by oath upon the belief of the petitioner, and upon being filed the judge of the county or circuit court shall have such child named in the petition brought before him for the purpose of determining the application in said petition contained. But no child shall be committed to such school who has ever been convicted of any offense punishable by confinement in any penal institution.

§ 6. Upon the filing of such petition the clerk of the court shall issue a writ to the sheriff of the county directing him to bring such child before the court, and if the court shall find that the material facts set forth in the petition are true, and if, in the opinion of the court, such child is a fit person to be committed to such parental or truant school, an order shall be entered that such child be committed to such parental or truant school, to be kept there until he or she arrives at the age of fourteen years unless sooner discharged in the manner hereinafter set forth. Before the hearing aforesaid notice in writing shall be given to the parent or guardian of such child, if known, of the proceedings about to be instituted, that he or she may appear and resist the same if they so desire.

§ 7. It shall be the duty of the parent or guardian of any child committed to this school to provide suitable clothing upon his or her entry into such school and from time to time thereafter as it may be needed, upon notice in writing from the superintendent or other proper officer of the school. In case any parent or guardian shall refuse or neglect to furnish such clothing, the same may be provided

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by the board of education, and such board may have an action against such parent or guardian of said child to recover the costs of such clothing with 10 per cent. additional thereto.

§ 8. The board of education of such city shall have power to establish rules and regulations under which children committed to such parental or truant school may be allowed to return home upon parole, but to remain while upon parole in the legal custody and under the control of the officers and agents of such school, and subject at any time to be taken back within the enclosure of such school by the superintendent or any authorized officer of said school except as hereinafter provided; and full power to enforce such rules and regulations to retake any such child so upon parole is hereby conferred upon said board of education. No child shall be released upon parole in less than four weeks from the time of his or her commitment, nor thereafter until the superintendent of such parental or truant school shall have become satisfied from the conduct of the child that, if paroled, he or she will attend regularly the public or private school to which he or she may be sent by his or her parents or guardian and shall so certify to the board of education.

§ 9. It shall be the duty of the principal or other person having charge of the school to which such child so released on parole may be sent to report at least once each month to the superintendent of the parental or truant school, stating whether or not such child attends school regularly and obeys the rules and requirements of said school; and if such child so released upon parole shall be regular in his or her attendance at school and his or her conduct as a pupil shall be satisfactory for a period of one year from the date which he or she was released on parole, he or she shall then be finally discharged from the parental or truant school, and shall not be recommitted thereto except on petition as herein before provided.

§ 10. In case any child released from said school upon parole, as herein before provided, shall violate the conditions of his or her parole at any time within one year thereafter, he or she shall upon the order of the board of education, as herein before provided, be taken back to such parental or truant school and shall not be again released upon parole within the period of three months from the date of such re-entering; and if he or she shall violate the conditions of a second parole he or she shall be recommitted to such parental or truant school and shall not be released therefrom on parole until he or she shall remain in said school at least one year.

§ 11. In any case where a child is found to be incorrigible and his or her influence in such school to be detrimental to the interests of the other pupils, the board of education may authorize the superintendent or any officer of the school to represent these facts to the circuit or county court by petition, and the court shall have authority to commit said child to some juvenile reformatory.

§ 12. Boards of education in cities having a population of over 25,000 and less than 100,000 may establish, maintain and operate a parental or truant school for the purposes hereinafter specified, and in case of the establishment of such a school, the boards of education

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